In Texas, where pipelines are abundant, barely 1% of the gas produced statewide is flared. Since 2006, North Dakota’s natural gas industry has added enough pipeline to stretch from Los Angeles ...

North Dakota Farmer Finds Major Oil Spill. October 11, ... MONTAGNE: The public learned yesterday about a spill that was discovered almost two weeks ago in a wheat field in northwest North Dakota.

BISMARCK, N.D. -- A North Dakota farmer who discovered an oil spill the size of seven football fields while out harvesting wheat says that when he found it, crude was bubbling up out of the ground.

When Steve Jensen took in a "sweet" gas smell on his sprawling North Dakota wheat field, he had no idea what he would eventually uncover: 20,600 barrels of crude oil spewing from the ground ...

BISMARCK, N.D. North Dakota farmer who discovered an oil spill the size of seven football fields while out harvesting wheat says that when he found it, crude was bubbling up out of the ground.

A farmer discovered a huge oil spill — several times bigger than the recent Mayflower, Ark., spill — nearly two weeks ago in North Dakota. But because of federal government furloughs, we’re ...

The discovery of oil in North Dakota 69 years ago transformed the state, influencing its economy and politics. ... Its history runs through angry wheat farmers and Air Force bases and floods, ...

John Bartelson, who smokes Marlboro Lights through fingers blackened with tractor grease, may look like an average wheat farmer. He isn't. He's one of North Dakota's new oil barons.